Wrongdoing Before Adam and Romans 5

[deuteroKJ (Kenneth Turner)]

@Guy_Coe

@swamidass and @deuteroKJ , Walton’s whole “Proposition 17” covers this (pp. 153-155 cover the Adam and Eve related issues). He makes some great distinctions there, but is rather veiled in an assertion of an “imago Dei” humanity before Adam, possibly to minimize pushback --but it’s there in his analysis.

I look forward to rereading this when I can get back to the office. It’ll be interesting to see if he’s exegeting Rom 5:13 this way or using it as an analogy. He does come out explicitly (but I can’t cite where right now) and affirm that the original adam (before Adam) are image-bearers. I’ll try to find the reference, b/c I’m sure I made a note in the margin.